Summary

This special topic poll solicited opinion on issues
concerning United States policy toward and relations with Japan and
Asia. Respondents were asked whether the Clinton Administration should
take a hard line concerning the trade imbalance with Japan, whether the
Administration should pay more attention to Japan than to other Asian
countries, whether Japan should become a permanent member of the United
Nations Security Council, and whether the United States and Japan
should try to increase their financial/technical aid, political
influence, and military presence in Asian and Pacific nations.
Additional questions covered the current status and future of relations
between the United States and Japan, Japan's reliability as an ally,
whether Japan's economic strength posed a threat to the United States,
and whether things were going in the right direction in each respective
country. On other subjects, respondents offered their opinions on Bill
Clinton, the United States economy, the general role of the United
States in world affairs, the relative importance of the United States'
building unified support in the United Nations before making a major
foreign policy decision, and the promotion of Hawaiian sumo wrestler
Akebono to Grand Champion. Background information on respondents
includes political party, vote choice in the 1992 presidential
election, education, social class, employment status, Hispanic origin,
race, age, and sex.

Time Period(s)

Date of Collection

Data Collection Notes

Sample

Households were selected by random digit dialing. Within
households, the respondent selected was the adult living in the
household who last had a birthday and who was at home at the time of
the interview.

Universe

Persons aged 18 and over living in households with
telephones in the 48 contiguous United States.

Data Source

telephone interviews

Data Type(s)

Original Release Date

1994-03-10

Version Date

2009-09-17

Version History

2009-09-17 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.

1994-03-10 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Created variable labels and/or value labels.

Notes

Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.

This study is provided by ICPSR. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community.